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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 5.38 (search)
Diary of Captain Robert E. Park, Twelfth Alabama regiment.
[Concluded.]
April 5th to 10th, 1865
Our hospital life is monotonous and varied only by daily discussions of reports of General Lee's situation, gathered from the rabid, black Republican papers we are permitted to buy. The news to-day (10th) is dreadful indeed.
General Lee has surrendered is repeated with hushed breath from lip to lip. No human tongue, however eloquent, no pen, however gifted, can give an adequate description of our dismay and horror at the heartrending news.
The sudden, unexpected calamity shocked reason and unsettled memory.
The news crushed our fondest hopes.
On every countenance rests the shadow of gloom, on every heart the paralyzing torpor of despair.
We move about, or sit on our beds, silent, almost motionless, in the speechless agony of woe, in the mute eloquence of unutterable despair.
After four long weary years of battle and marches, of prayers and tears, of pain and sacrifice,